TAO + LEE Associates, Inc. is an award winning St. Louis based design firm providing Architectural, Planning, Interiors, and Creative Design services for a diversity of project types, sizes & applications.

The firm has extensive experience in the planning, design and execution of Commercial, Cultural/Institutional, Educational,Healthcare, Hospitality-Restaurants, Industrial-Manufacturing, Residential, Retail, and Sports-Recreation project types, including Art and Creative Design.

The firm’s principals, Peter Tao and Helen Lee, have a collective 70+ years of experience practicing architecture in St. Louis, New York and London, with projects located domestically and internationally.

TAO + LEE has been recognized with a City of St. Louis Businesses of the Year, St. Louis Asian American Chamber of Commerce Asian Business of the Year and a St. Louis Mosaic Ambassador Company award.

TAO + LEE projects have been the recipient of many design awards, including from the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS; the St. Louis Business Journal's BUILDING ST. LOUIS program; AT HOME Magazine and BEST OF HOUZZ.COM.

The firm and firm projects have been featured in AT HOME Magazine, Feast Magazine, Masonry Institute of St. Louis, Riverfront Times, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Chinese American News, St. Louis Commerce Magazine, St. Louis CNR Magazine, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, St. Louis Magazine, Sophisticated Living, Who’s Who Diversity in Color and national publications INTERIORS Magazine and VMSD/Visual Merchandise and Store Design.

Peter & Helen received their Masters of Architecture degrees from Columbia University (New York) and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Washington University (St. Louis) and the University of Southern California, respectively.

Peter and Helen were included in the inaugural publication of Who’s Who Diversity in Color. Peter has also received a Diverse Business Leader recognition award from the St. Louis Business Journal, a Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University, a Launch Code Moonshot Award Finalist and a Saint Louis Rams Community Quarterback Award. Helen has been recognized by Small Business Monthly as a Top Women Business Owner and an OCA-St. Louis Asian American Pacific Islander Women Leader.